Show MAGNITUDE OF CANAL some ng F agures gures submitted by eng in charge washington the engineers on the panama canal are dealing in vast fig ures these days and the canal decord just received conveys in i graphic manner an idea of the magnitude 0 the work to be done upon the locks of the canal it is stated for instance that the amount of concrete to be used in building these loci s would suffice to construct e room city bouses of the generous size of feet w ath two stor es and basement and with concrete floors and root to the number of 22 allowing each of these houses a seventy five foot lot they would make a continuous street from new york to philadelphia with enough houses left to make a row on one side of the street from philadelphia to washington the housed would furnish suburban homes for people or according to city standards made lave a tion equal to trat of the city of minne apolis |